[pronut-hiv] Abbott, Ross...Nestle

["George Carter" <fiar@verizon.net>]

Ross Labs is owned by Abbott which manufactures the Ensure.

Then there is always Nestle, another DEAR friend of the African  
people. See, e.g., http://www.ibfan.org/english/news/press/ 
press15may01.html

They make Nutren which is little better than the Ensure sugar/water/ 
bad fat fiasco. And claim a doctor is needed to figure out who to  
give this garbage to.

and another here:
http://www.babymilkaction.org/CEM/compapr00.html

and yet another--
http://www.westonaprice.org/children/tricks.html

Quote: The baby food industry has used and needs health professionals  
to endorse, distribute and sell its products. According to an Abbott  
Labs publication, "As the voice of Abbott, Abbott Topics can be a  
positive force molding the physicians' opinion of Abbott. In effect  
we are striving to make the physician a low-pressure salesman of  
Abbott."

These companies really do not seem to give a damn who or how many  
they harm or kill as long as profits, profits, profits are increasing  
exponentially to keep the parasites on Wall Street happy. I'm  
grateful to the moderators for having galvanized me into examining  
these practices more carefully. I think it behooves everyone on this  
list to be extremely doubtful of claims made by second rate salesmen  
from the industry that has sought so assiduously to cause enormous  
suffering and death by blocking access to generic HIV and other  
medications. (A happy note: Pharmaceutical company Matrix  
Laboratories said it has received tentative approval from the US Food  
and Drug Administration (FDA) for Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate  
tablets, used for the treatment of HIV infection.)

Realizing that the US and European "private sector" has nothing to  
offer Africa and developing nations but more rape, let us return to  
the discussion with renewed vigor on local, sustainable and healthful  
programs of nutrition for children and mothers with and without HIV  
infection. I think the data from this past year's Retrovirus  
conference further underscored the safety and practicality of  
exclusive breastfeeding for HIV+ mothers, where and whenever that is  
feasible.

George M. Carter